Anybody know who it was?

In a story about John Bolton's efforts to remove a UN chemical weapons inspector Jose Bustani, we read:

Both [veteran U.S. arms negotiator Ralph] Earle and career diplomat Avis Bohlen, who retired in June 2002 as a top Bolton deputy, said the idea to remove Bustani did not originate with the undersecretary. But Bolton "leaped on it enthusiastically," Bohlen recalled. "He was very much in charge of the whole campaign," she said, and Bustani's initiative on Iraq seemed the "coup de grace."

Assuming the above is true, have there been any disclosures as to who initiated the move to get rid of Bustani? We aren't aware of any.

Anybody know? (Our guess would be somebody from Cheney's office, but that's just a guess. Maybe it came from the Pentagon, or one of its affiliated agencies.)


posted by Quiddity at 6/08/2005 07:26:00 AM